Thanks for posting these links Tom. I had no idea
this idiots had taken this so far. This certainly
raises a lot of issues: biological effects of high
intensity EM radiation, illegality, interference to
other services (including spurious emissons), out of
band operation, and destruction of the reputation of
anyone who has anything to do with radios.
It seems clear that this is as much about engines
screaming at 5000 rpm as it is about radios. It might
save everybody a lot of time if they just went
straight to penis length measurement and skipped all
the radio stuff.
However, I do believe in freedom. So maybe we should
turn the discussion to possible ways to accomodate
these guys while protecting ham radio. Maybe the
power limits should be removed completely for CB but
out of band operation should be punished harshly.
I think we all deserve to hear from the FCC on this.
What do they intend to do to protect Ham Radio and the
other services?
Can someone provide an email address for Riley
Hollingsworth?
Thanks,
Mike wy6k
--- Tom Hix W4TH <w4th@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> There have been several messages lately about amps
> designed for amateur
> use being used on 11 meters.
> In my humble opinion, I think it will be hard to get
> the legitimate
> manufactures of amateur amps to do anything to
> prevent this until the
> FCC is willing to go after those manufactures who
> are designing and
> selling amps specifically designed for the cb band.
> I did a search on one of the search engines under CB
> AMPS, and below you
> will see just a small fraction of the listings I was
> able to find.
> If these amps are indeed illegal, and are as easy to
> find as doing a
> search on a search engine, why is the FCC not doing
> anything to put
> these guys out of business?
> If you have a few minutes, take a look at some of
> these pages. One
> manufacturer was calling his amps CW transmitters,
> and all of them say
> their products are for export only. Yeah right! But
> it looks like these
> guys make them all the way from 100 watts to
> 100kw!!! I even saw one
> page that showed two trucks pulling trailers with
> engines mounted on the
> trailers, that were used to pull just the
> alternators used to power the
> amps. The story along with the picture said between
> these two mobile
> stations they had a combined output of over one
> quarter of a million
> watts!!!! It seems these cb'ers have what is called
> a "shootout" where
> two mobile stations will park side by side, and a
> monitoring station
> will be set up some distance away, and the station
> who has the best
> signal at the monitoring station wins the
> "shootout". The last link at
> the bottom shows some of these big "shootout"
> stations in operation.
> They actually made movies of them in action. The
> only trouble was there
> was so much RF in the air it was causing the video
> tape recorder to
> eject the tape when the big boys were transmitting!
> I wonder if any
> researchers have ever done a study to see what the
> occurrence of brain
> tumors are among these guys who set there a few feet
> from all of that
> RF? They talk about drugs frying your brain, can you
> imagine what
> 100,000 watts on 11 meters 3 ft away from someone's
> head can be doing,
> WOW!
> I sent Mr. Hollingsworth an email about these
> "shootouts" sometime back
> with a list of all the upcoming events for this
> year. I told him I sure
> would like to be there at one of these things if he
> would just show up
> one time. I think if he would just show up at one of
> them, there would
> never be another, or at least not for a long time.
> But until the FCC does something about these kinds
> of dealers, I doubt
> very seriously the legit manufactures are going to
> do anything to stop
> their amps from turning up on 11 meters. I cant say
> as I blame them.
> That's just my opinion.
> 73
> Tom
> W4TH
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